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SchoolCounselor.com eNewsletter #136
January 15, 2013
Welcome to SchoolCounselor.com,
an electronic newsletter designed to advance counselors' level of
technological literacy, application, and integration. You will find
practical solutions and answers to technology related problems,
especially as they apply to your job as counselor. If you would like
to share a tip or trick, or if you would like to ask a question,
e-mail Russ Sabella at
news@schoolcounselor.com
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The Time
Elapsed Analysis & Reporting System (T.E.A.R.S.) is
a Microsoft Excel add-in that automatically calculates
the total amount of time that you have spent in
different aspects of your work. After exporting your
calendar data from Microsoft Outlook to Excel, this
add-in extracts elapsed time, sums up the number of
hours in each category, and then produces both a table
and a chart. If you ever wondered where your time goes,
you will want to use T.E.A.R.S. to learn more.
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Highlights from SchoolCounselor.com
Updated
Onsite Professional Development Catalog for School Counselors,
Administrators, and other Educators
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Must See Videos
(http://counselingvideos.blogspot.com/)
New videos have been added since
the last issue:
• Steubenville
Football & Rape Culture
Customized Webinars for your School or District
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Postings
from Russ Sabella ...
– Keeping Kids
Out
of High Tech Trouble.
This blog supports Dr. Russell Sabella's work on
educating children, parents, educators and other stake
holders about the responsible use of technology.
Included in these pages you will find helpful resources,
lesson plans, links, and more. Russ's most recent book
and workshops are primary resources for meeting this
mission.
http://guardingkids.blogspot.com/
– SchoolCounselor.com eNewsletter.
The SchoolCounselor.com e-Newsletter is an electronic
publication designed to advance counselors' level of
technological literacy, application, and integration.
You will find practical solutions and answers to
technology related problems, especially as they apply to
your job as counselor.
http://counselingtechnology.blogspot.com/
– Must See Videos.
When I see a video that would be useful, inspiring,
enlightening among counselors, I post it here.
http://counselingvideos.blogspot.com/
– Twitter.
Postings about all thinks counseling, life, humor, and
more.
http://twitter.com/rsabella
– Pinterest. Lots of
resources for counselors, parents, and others.
http://pinterest.com/rsabella/
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TIPS
AND TRICKS
How to Move Windows 7 Personal
Folders Like My Documents to Another Drive
Is your C:\ drive getting crowded? Would you like to move
some things to another drive or partition to free up space? Maybe
it’s one of the personal system folders like My Documents, My
Pictures, My Videos or the Download folder that is taking up a lot
of space. If you have another partition or hard drive, consider
moving some system folders to a second volume. This site tells you
how it’s done ...
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-move-windows-7-personal-folders-my-documents-another-drive.htm
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PREDATOR locks your PC when
you are away, even if your Windows session is still opened.
It uses a regular USB flash drive as an access control device,
http://www.predator-usb.com/predator/en/index.php
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Master your Presentation in 25 Steps
This is an important post and the goal of this post is
ambitious. In this post I am going to outline the entire process of
making a presentation. This post applies to any presentation made
using PowerPoint or any other software.
http://www.allaboutpresentations.com/2012/11/master-your-presentation-in-25-steps.html
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Posters
Beautiful ... Inspiring .. Motivational
... Touching
Counseling Posters for your Office and Home
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Gmail and Drive - A New Way to Send
Files
Since Google Drive launched in April, millions of people have
started using Drive to keep, create and share files. Starting today,
it’s even easier to share with others: you can insert files from
Drive directly into an email without leaving your Gmail.
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/gmail-and-drive-new-way-to-send-files.html
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Using Microsoft Word? Here's How To
Become a Time-Saving Ninja
Whether you’re writing letters, articles, a research paper or
the world’s next great novel, Microsoft Word can save you a great
deal of time if you take a few moments to customize the software for
your particular habits and use.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/microsoft-word-time-savers/
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The Time Elapsed Analysis &
Reporting System (T.E.A.R.S.) is a Microsoft Excel add-in
that automatically calculates the total amount of time that you have
spent in different aspects of your work. After exporting your
calendar data from Microsoft Outlook to Excel, this add-in extracts
elapsed time, sums up the number of hours in each category, and then
produces both a table and a chart. If you ever wondered where your
time goes, you will want to use T.E.A.R.S. to learn more.
http://www.schoolcounselor.com/tears/
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Creating an Agenda Template in Excel
When planning a meeting, an event or activity, we deal with many
individual steps (each taking certain amount of time). Today let us
understand how to create an agenda template in Excel using simple
formulas.
http://chandoo.org/wp/2013/01/04/agenda-template-excel/
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Insomnia
This prevents your Windows PC from sleeping or hibernating
which can sometimes interrupt a process such as watching a movie,
downloading a large file, or allow you to remotely log in.
Download here.
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Joe's Goals is a simple yet
powerful tool to make tracking your goals the easiest part of
accomplishing them. Use the simple single page interface to setup
daily goals and track them with just a click. Watch your daily score
to gage your success and use negative goals (or vices) to confront
and overcome bad habits that finally need to get the boot. Share
your success with your friends and family or post your personal
score badge to your blog or MySpace page. Add as many Goals as you
want and update them all from a single interface.
http://www.joesgoals.com/
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Microsoft Excel: Get a line break
inside a cell
Use ALT+Enter to get a line break inside a cell. If you need
to type content in a cell and you want to see it in multiple lines
then use alt + enter to break the content in several lines. See to
the below example.
Source:
Chandoo.org
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WORTHY WEBSITES AND SOFTWARE
YouTube
Thumbnail Finder
Paste a URL to a YouTube video in the box below to get the
video's thumbnail URL.
http://www.doctormckay.com/utilities/youtubethumbnail.php
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Chandoo.org – A short introduction
to our site
This is a site that will help you to “become awesome in
Excel.”
http://chandoo.org/wp/2012/07/27/welcome-to-chandoo-org/
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School Counseling On Air Google+
Page
A collaboration between many school counselor bloggers across
the country is coming together to offer a new experience for many of
us. During National School Counseling Week, Feb. 4th - 10th, there
will be nightly presentations hosted on Google Hangouts (there is
opportunity for participation with this platform) and streamed live
over YouTube. You can see the schedule posted above for topics and
presenters. All will begin at 8PM EST/5PM PST and last about an
hour.
Click
here
to learn more.
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AutoStarter X3 is a tool to
create a list with your files, shortcuts, webpages, directories and
music, which you would like to open by launching a single batch
file.
http://2xdsoft.de.tl/AutoStarterX3.htm
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How To Record Video and Audio Skype
Calls (Macintosh only)
Want to do record your Skype calls using split screen? This
could work.
http://geekbeat.tv/how-to-record-video-and-audio-skype-calls/
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Cold Turkey is a free/open
source program that you can use to temporarily block yourself off of
popular social media sites, addicting websites, online games and
whatever else you want! You can use it to help you concentrate while
you work on your computer. Imagine how fast you could do your work
without all those distractions!
http://www.getcoldturkey.com/
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QuickRota manages shared
task, so you don't have to waste your time reminding others to do
their portion of the work.
http://www.quickrota.com/
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Toggl - Time Tracking that Works
Time track anywhere on anything: Mac, PC, iPhone, iPad, iPod,
or Android.
https://www.toggl.com
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IfWeRanTheWorld is a
real-world experiment in tapping good intentions and turning them
into tangible, do-able microactions that anyone and everyone can
help you to do. All of us can achieve more than one of us, and
everything starts with a microaction.
http://ifwerantheworld.com/
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Sound Sleeping: Sounds to help you
sleep and relax.
The free relaxing music and nature sounds on this website
have been carefully chosen for their ability to aid sleep, reduce
stress, and provide a relaxing atmosphere for activities such as
yoga, tai-chi, and meditation.
http://www.soundsleeping.com/
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PaperKarma helps get rid of
junk mail and save the Earth - all from your phone! PaperKarma is
the easy way to take control of your paper junk mail, cut your paper
waste, and help save the Earth — by taking photos! Simply pull out
your phone and snap photos of the offending mail. PaperKarma will
figure out what it is and how to stop it
Android
or
iTunes
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Calme is a way to create
calendars and planners with ease. You can choose your own color
scheme, tweak fonts and borders, import holidays and birthdays, or
even add your own photos. There are 12 different templates to choose
from. Calendars can print in a wide variety of sizes and formats.
Source:
Komando.com
Direct download:
http://calme.mecoding.com/
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JUST FOR FUN
The MakeitOne MP3 Album Maker
allows you to pack/join your MP3 files in a single file - whilst
still allowing full playability, tag editing and unpacking.
http://www.makeitone.net/audio/mp3albummaker.htm
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Google Goggles
Search by taking a picture: point your mobile phone camera at
a painting, a famous landmark, a barcode or QR code, a product, a
storefront, or a popular image. If Goggles finds it in its database,
it will provide you with useful information.
Android
iTunes
(included in the Google Search app)
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GoMeals
Three applications in one! A nutritional database, powered by
CalorieKing, combined with a restaurant locator and a food tracking
tool.
Android
or
iOS
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